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Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion . It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River.
Yukon's eight municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass [a] but are home to 72.2% of its population. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The remainder of the territory's land area is unorganized . Municipal governments are created by the Government of Yukon in accordance with the Municipal Act of 2001. [ 5 ]
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Haines Junction is a village in Yukon, Canada. It is at Kilometre 1,632 (historical mile 1016) of the Alaska Highway at its junction with the Haines Highway, hence the name of the community. According to the 2021 census, the population was 688. [3] However, the Yukon Bureau of Statistics lists the population count for 2022 as 1,018. [4]
Carmacks is a village in Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River along the Klondike Highway, and at the west end of the Robert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake. The population is 588 (Canada Census, 2021), an increase from the Census of 2016. It is the home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone-speaking people.
Yukon covers 482,443 km 2, of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world, and, among the fifty largest, the least populous. Yukon is bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its western boundary is 141° west ...
The community of Teslin (/'tɛs.lɪn/ TESS-lin) (Tlingit: Desleen) includes the Village of Teslin in Yukon, Canada. Teslin is situated at historical Mile 804 on the Alaska Highway along Teslin Lake. [1] The Hudson's Bay Company established a small trading post at Teslin in 1903 (i.e. Teslin Post).
Mayo is a village in Yukon, Canada, along the Silver Trail and the Stewart River. It had a population of 200 in 2016. [4] The Yukon Bureau of Statistics estimated a population of 496 in 2019. [5] It is also the home of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun, whose people primarily speak the northern variety of the Tutchone language.